Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Training

Audience

Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.Prerequisites

Students should have 1-2 years experience as a developer. This course assumes students know how to code and have a fundamental knowledge of Azure.

It is recommended that students have some experience with PowerShell or Azure CLI, working in the Azure portal, and with at least one Azure-supported programming language. Most of the examples in this course are presented in C\# .NET.

Duration

5 Days

Outline of Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Training

AZ-203T01

Module 1: Implement solutions that use virtual machines

Students will learn how to properly plan for VM deployment. It covers VM creation by using the Azure Portal, PowerShell, and through code. It also covers creating and using ARM templates for repeatable deployments and how to use Azure Disk Encryption to secure information on the VM.

Lessons

Provision VMs

Create ARM templates

Configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Learn how to create and deploy virtual machines by using the Azure Portal, PowerShell, and through code.

Learn how to create and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates by using the Azure Portal and Visual Studio.

Understand the different encryption options and learn how to encrypt existing and new deployments.

Module 2: Implement batch jobs by using Azure Batch Services

Azure Batch creates and manages a pool of compute nodes (virtual machines), installs the applications you want to run, and schedules jobs to run on the nodes.

Lessons

Azure Batch overview

Run a batch job by using the Azure CLI and Azure Portal

Run batch jobs by using code

Manage batch jobs by using the Batch Service API

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how the Azure Batch service works

Learn how to create and run batch jobs by using the Azure CLI

Learn how to create and run batch jobs by using code

Learn how to use the Azure Batch Service API to manage jobs

Module 3: Create containerized solutions

You can build and run modern, portable, microservices-based applications that benefit from Kubernetes orchestrating and managing the availability of those application components. Kubernetes supports both stateless and stateful applications as teams progress through the adoption of microservices-based applications.

Lessons

Create an Azure Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster

Create container images for solutions

Publish an image to the Azure Container Registry

Run containers by using Azure Container Instance or AKS

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Learn core concepts for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Learn how to deploy AKS clusters

Publish an image to the Azure Container Registry

Learn about Azure Container Instances and how to deploy to them

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Module 1: Create App Service web apps

Azure App Service Web Apps (or just Web Apps) is a service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends. Web Apps not only adds the power of Microsoft Azure to your application, such as security, load balancing, autoscaling, and automated management.

Lessons

Azure App Service core concepts

Creating an Azure App Service web app

Creating background tasks by using WebJobs in Azure App Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand App Service core concepts and capabilities

Know how to create App Service web apps by using Azure CLI, Azure Portal, and PowerShell.

Be able to create continuous and triggered WebJobs

Module 2: Creating Azure App Service mobile apps

The Mobile Apps feature of Azure App Service gives enterprise developers and system integrators a mobile-application development platform that's highly scalable and globally available.

Lessons

Getting started with mobile apps in App Service

Enable push notifications for your app

Enable offline sync for your app

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Push their app on to the Mobile App service

How to register apps for push notifications

Module 3: Create Azure App Service API apps

This module covers how to create and document an Azure App Service API.

Lessons

Creating APIs

Using Swagger to document an API

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Know how to create an APIM instance and create a new API

Know how to use Swashbuckle to create Swagger objects in ASP.NET Core

Module 4: Implement Azure Functions

Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud. You can write just the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it.

Lessons

Azure Functions overview

Develop Azure Functions using Visual Studio

Implement durable functions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the core features and functionality of Azure Functions

Be able to create functions, bindings, and triggers

Know common patters for Durable Functions and be able to create them

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Module 1: Develop solutions that use Azure Table storage

Azure Table storage is a service that stores structured NoSQL data in the cloud, providing a key/attribute store with a schemaless design. Because Table storage is schemaless, it's easy to adapt your data as the needs of your application evolve.

Lessons

Azure Table storage overview

Authorization in Table storage

Table service REST API

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the features and uses of Azure Table storage

Know how to utilize Shared Key authorization

Know how to use the Azure Table storage REST service to manage data

Module 2: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB storage

This module covers Azure Cosmos DB storage. It instructs students on how it works, how to manage containers and items, and create and update documents by using code.

Lessons

Azure Cosmos DB overview

Managing containers and items

Create and update documents by using code

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand core features and functionality of Azure Cosmos DB

Be able to manage containers and items

Be able to create and update documents

Module 3: Develop solutions that use a relational database

SQL Database is a general-purpose relational database managed service in Microsoft Azure that supports structures such as relational data, JSON, spatial, and XML.

Lessons

Azure SQL overview

Create, read, update, and delete database tables by using code

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Know how the Azure SQL Database service works

Be able to perform database operations by using code

Module 4: Develop solutions that use Microsoft Azure Blob storage

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that does not adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

Lessons

Azure Blob storage overview

Working with Azure Blob storage

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand when and why to use Azure Blob storage

Know how to set and retrieve Blob storage properties and metadata

Know how to replicate and copy Blobs

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Module 1: Implement authentication

Microsoft identity platform is an evolution of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity service and developer platform. It allows developers to build applications that sign in all Microsoft identities, get tokens to call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs, or APIs that developers have built.

Lessons

Microsoft identity platform

Implement OAuth2 authentication

Implement managed identities for Azure resources

Implement authentication by using certificates, forms-based authentication, or tokens

Implement multi-factor authentication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the architecture of the Microsoft identity platform

Be able to implement OAuth2 authentication in their solutions

Be able to use Azure Key Vault to store and retrieve authentication information

Module 2: Implement access control

This module covers claims-based and role-based access control.

Lessons

Claims-based authorization

Role-based access control (RBAC) authorization

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Learn how to use claims-based authorization in their development solutions

How to manage access to resources using RBAC through the REST API

Module 3: Implement secure data solutions

This module covers securing data at rest and during transmission.

Lessons

Encryption options

End-to-end encryption

Implement Azure confidential computing

Manage cryptographic keys in Azure Key Vault

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand encryption options

Learn how to encrypt data with Transparent Data Encryption

Manage and utilize encryption keys by using the Azure key Vault

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Module 1: Introduction to Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is the central service that includes all of tools you need to monitor and optimize your solution.

Lessons

Overview of Azure Monitor

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how Azure Monitor works

Know where and how Azure Monitor collects data

Module 2: Develop code to support scalability of apps and services

This module covers how applications scale and how to handle some troubleshooting.

Lessons

Implement autoscale

Implement code that addresses singleton application instances

Implement code that handles transient faults

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand autoscale patterns and best practices for scaling their solutions

How to use the Azure CLI to communicate with a specific copy of a resource

How to handle transient faults in your solution

Module 3: Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

This module covers adding code to your app to send the data to Azure Monitor.

Lessons

Configure instrumentation in an app or server by using Application Insights

Analyze and troubleshoot solutions by using Azure Monitor

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Know how to add default code to web pages, console apps, and Windows desktop apps to support telemetry

Know how to use dashboards and other tools to monitor and troubleshoot their app

Module 4: Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

This module shows students how to leverage Azure Cache for Redis and Azure CDNs to deliver assets to users more quickly.

Lessons

Azure Cache for Redis

Develop for storage on CDNs

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how Azure Cache for Redis operates and how to configure and interact with it

Know how to manage Azure CDN

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Module 1: Develop an App Service Logic App

Logic Apps helps you build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows. This module covers what they are and how to create them.

Lessons

Azure Logic Apps overview

Create Logic Apps by using Visual Studio

Create custom connectors for Logic Apps

Create custom templates for Logic Apps

Students will understand how to create and manage Azure Logic Apps.

Module 2: Integrate Azure Search within solutions

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service cloud solution that gives developers APIs and tools for adding a rich search experience over private, heterogenous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. In this module students will learn how to integrate Azure Search in to their solutions.

Lessons

Create and query an Azure Search Index

Full text search in Azure Search

Students will know how to provision the service, create an index, load data, and execute searches.

Module 3: API Management

API Management (APIM) helps organizations publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services.

Lessons

Introduction to the API Management service

Securing your APIs

Defining API policies

Students will know how to provision the APIM service using the Azure Portal, secure APIs with subscriptions and client certificates, and use API policies to modify the behavior of an API.

Students will know how the services work and how to integrate them in to their solutions.

Module 5: Develop message-based solutions

Microsoft Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise integration message broker. Service Bus is most commonly used to decouple applications and services from each other, and is a reliable and secure platform for asynchronous data and state transfer. Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.

Lessons

Implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus

Implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues

Students will understand how to leverage Azure message-based services in their solutions.